Award-winning Investigative Journalist Robert Parry (1949-2018)
Award-winning investigative journalist and founder/editor of ConsortiumNews.com, Robert Parry has passed away. His ground-breaking work uncovering Reagan-era dirty wars in Central America and many other illegal and immoral policies conducted by successive administrations and U.S. intelligence agencies, stands as an inspiration to all in journalists working in the public interest.
Robert had been a regular guest on our Between The Lines and Counterpoint radio shows -- and many other progressive outlets across the U.S. over four decades.
His penetrating analysis of U.S. foreign policy and international conflicts will be sorely missed, and not easily replaced. His son Nat Parry writes a tribute to his father: Robert Parry’s Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews.
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Between The Lines' coverage and resource compilation of the Resistance Movement
- "The man who predicted Trump presidential win now says Trump impeachment could happen," AM Joy with Joy Reid, MSNBC, Jan. 21, 2018
- "Sketchy Kazakh money finds its way into Trump dealings," The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, Jan. 15, 2018
- "Red flags seen in many Trump real estate deals," The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, Jan. 15, 2018
- "Secret Money: How Trump Made Millions Selling Condos To Unknown Buyers," BuzzFeed, Jan. 12, 2018
- "The Scandals of Donald Trump: Presidential Edition," The Atlantic, May 15, 2017
- "Here's what we know so far about Team Trump's ties to Russian interests," Washington Post's ongoing compilation
- "What Comey Was Investigating, Explained," The Moscow Project, Center for American Progress
- "Donald Trump's Financial Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Mobsters Detailed In Explosive New Documentary from the Netherlands," Dutch TV documentary, Alternet.org, May 12, 2017
- Ongoing compilation of Trump's creeping authoritarianism," MotherJones.com
- Full resource list ...
Selected speeches from the Women's March in Hartford, Connecticut 2018, recorded and produced by Scott Harris
SPECIAL REPORT: "No Fracking Waste in CT!" Jan. 14, 2018
- Jen Siskind Jennifer Siskind, local coordinator for Food and Water Watch, describes the campaign to stop fracking waste in Connecticut, which so far has led to fracking waste bans in 34 towns around the state.
Interviewed by Richard Hill on Mic Check, WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT
SPECIAL REPORT: "Resistance Round Table: The Unraveling Continues..." Jan. 13, 2018
- Lindsay Kanaly
The panel discusses Trump's long history of racism and the Republican voter suppression juggernaut confronting Democrats leading up to the 2018 elections. Special guest: Lindsay Kanaly, a lead organizer of the Women's Marches planned for Jan. 20, 2018. Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill on Resistance Roundtable, WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT.
SPECIAL REPORT: "Capitalism to the ash heap?" Richard Wolff, Jan. 2, 2018
- Richard Wolff,
Economics professor Richard Wolff declares U.S. capitalism to be beyond repair and
suggests the need for a radical alternative. Interviewed by Richard Hill
SPECIAL REPORT: Maryn McKenna, author of "Big Chicken", Dec. 7, 2017
- Maryn McKenna, investigative journalist and author of Big Chicken, talks about the widespread use and dangers of antibiotics in commercial poultry, beef and fruit production. Interview by Bill Duesing, Richard Hill and Guy Beardsly on WPKN's Organic Farm Stand.
SPECIAL REPORT: Nina Turner's address, Working Families Party Awards Banquet, Dec. 14, 2017
- Nina Turner, president of Our Revolution, talks about the fight ahead for progressives as she receives the Working Families Organization Award for Exceptional Leadership Towards Advancing Progress. The event was held in Meriden, CT.
Produced by Richard Hill.
SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Dec. 12, 2017
- Working Families Party of CT talks strategy and issues for 2018.
Lindsay Farrell, executive director of the Working Families Party of Connecticut, discusses the state's electoral landscape and lays out the issues and strategies that could lead to progressive victories in 2018. Interviewed by Richard Hill.
SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Dec. 9, 2017
SPECIAL REPORT: On Tyranny - one year later, Nov. 28, 2017
- Professor Timothy Snyder, author of the highly acclaimed resistance manual On Tyranny,
discusses his book and offers a fresh assessment of the state of our beleaguered republic. Timothy Snyder, history professor at Yale, is introduced by Stanley Heller, administrator of Promoting Enduring Peace, a Connecticut-based organization that sponsored this event at the United Church Parish House in New Haven on Nov. 28. A brief interview with Snyder conducted by WPKN radio producer, Richard Hill, follows his talk.
SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Nov. 12, 2017
SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Nov. 11, 2017
- Focus on the Republican tax plan, the just-released autopsy on the Democratic Party, and Internet censorship by Google, Facebook and Youtube. Including an interview with Hilary Grant, a lead organizer with Action Together Connecticut, who discusses the local results of the recent election, with hosts Richard Hill, Scott Harris and Ruth Baumgartner WPKN producers
SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017
SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017
SPECIAL REPORT: Resisting U.S. JeJu Island military base in South Korea, Oct. 24, 2017
SPECIAL REPORT: John Allen, Out in New Haven
- John Allen, founding director of the New Haven Pride Center, Connecticut, talks about his new LGBTQ television show, Out in New Haven, which presents a range of political and cultural issues to the community. Interviewed by Richard Hill on WPKN's Rainy Day Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018.
Promoting Enduring Peace presented its Gandhi Peace Award jointly to renowned consumer advocate Ralph Nader and BDS founder Omar Barghouti on April 23, 2017.
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Between The Lines Presentation at the Left Forum 2016
"How Do We Build A Mass Movement to Reverse Runaway Inequality?" with Les Leopold, author of "Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice,"May 22, 2016, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, 860 11th Ave. (Between 58th and 59th), New York City. Between The Lines' Scott Harris and Richard Hill moderated this workshop. Listen to the audio/slideshows and more from this workshop.
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JEREMY SCAHILL: Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker "Dirty Wars"
Listen to the full interview (30:33) with Jeremy Scahill, an award-winning investigative journalist with the Nation Magazine, correspondent for Democracy Now! and author of the bestselling book, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army," about America's outsourcing of its military. In an exclusive interview with Counterpoint's Scott Harris on Sept. 16, 2013, Scahill talks about his latest book, "Dirty Wars, The World is a Battlefield," also made into a documentary film under the same title, and was nominated Dec. 5, 2013 for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature category.
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This Week on Between The Lines
Posted Feb. 7, 2018
"I think we're already in a constitutional crisis. You have a president of the United States who is not fit to serve, and he's surrounded himself with authoritarian figures, mostly from the military. So the crisis is already there."
– Mel Goodman, former Soviet analyst at the CIA and State Department, author and senior fellow at the National Security Project at the Center for International Policy
Listen to the entire program using these links, or to individual
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Interview with Mel Goodman, former Soviet analyst at the CIA and State Department, author and senior fellow at the National Security Project at the Center for International Policy, conducted by Scott Harris
For the last few weeks, Washington has been focused on the controversial memo written by Devin Nunes, former Trump transition team member and Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, which described alleged bias against Trump and improprieties by the FBI and Justice Department in the process used to obtain a FISA surveillance warrant targeting Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. While the FBI, Justice Department, former intelligence officials and most Democrats condemned the decision by the House Intelligence Committee and White House to release the memo due to concerns regarding classified material, most of the information in the three-and-a-half-page document had already been published.
Story continues
Excerpt of an American Public Health Association conference presentation by Jacqueline Patterson, director of the NAACP’s Environmental and Climate Justice Program, recorded and produced by Melinda Tuhus
The 145th American Public Health Association conference drew 12,000 people to their annual gathering in Atlanta, Georgia for four days in early November 2017. The conference theme was “climate change and public health,” where dozens of workshops, panels and plenaries were organized to address that topic.
Story continues
Interview with Steven Rosenfeld, author and writer of democracy and voting rights issues for Alternet.org, conducted by Scott Harris
As Democrats gear up for this November’s 2018 midterm election, hoping to take over the U.S. House of Representatives and possibly the Senate, the issue of gerrymandered congressional district maps has become an ever more important issue. Back in 2010, Republicans focused their electoral effort on taking over state legislatures from coast to coast, with the prize being the right to redraw congressional district maps based on census data that is gathered every ten years.
Story continues
This week’s summary of under-reported news
MP3
Compiled by Bob Nixon
- Returning from a brief trade tour of China, British Prime Minister Theresa May faces a rebellion from members of her Conservative party over Brexit negotiations with the European Union. A faction of Tory conservatives favors joining up with the opposition Labour party who are advocating a new customs union with Europe. Many in the Labour Party want to schedule a second referendum to reconsider a British divorce from the EU.
("Tory Rebels Launch Bid to Keep UK in Customs Union with EU," The Guardian, Feb. 2, 2018;
"," The Guardian, Jan. 31, 2018;
"Labour Support on Rise for Rethink of Leaving EU, Survey Finds," The Guardian, Jan. 26, 2018)
- In a sign of the growing influence of hit-tech companies Google spent $18 million last year, to influence Congress, federal agencies and the White House on issues ranging from tax reform, immigration and net neutrality. According to the Washington Post Google also weighed in attempts to regulate online advertising, Google’s core profit center. 2017 was the first year a tech company outspent other industries, such as energy corporations, the telecom sector or military contractors, lobbying Washington.
("Google for the First Time Outspent Every Other Company to Influence Washington in 2017," Washington Post, Jan. 23, 2018;
"Lobbying by Telecom Industry Spikes to End 2017," OpenSecrets, Jan. 23, 2018)
- The expansion of CVS’s corporate empire, including its recently announced bid to acquire insurance giant Aetna is bad new for small, locally owned pharmacies. CVS, which is accused of trying to put independent pharmacists out business operates a vast chain of pharmacies -- and CVS Caremark, the nation’s second-largest pharmacy benefit manager, which negotiates directly with health plans over coverage and pricing for pharmaceutical drugs. Industry observers say this concentration of power is a disaster for competition and access, particularly in underserved communities. Adding a health insurer like Aetna would further strengthen CVS’s control of the pharmaceutical market, and narrow the networks people depend upon for medical care.
("Abusing Drugs," American Prospect, Jan. 23, 2018)
Recent Shows
January
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Paul O'Brien: Oxfam Reports the World's Top 1% Captured 82% of Global Wealth Created in 2017
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Robin Blakeman: Planned Appalachian Petrochemical Storage Hub Threatens to Create a New 'Cancer Alley'
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Greg Palast: Disbanded Trump 'Voter Fraud' Commission Moves to Department of Homeland Security
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Shiu-Ming Cheer: Government Shutdown Ends Without Legalizing 'Dreamers'
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Robert Borosage: Resistance Movement Targets 2018 Elections to Defeat GOP-Trump Agenda
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Keith Ellison: DNC Deputy Chairman Keith Ellison Advocates Reform and Grassroots Engagement
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John Nichols: Trump's Racism Drives White House Policy
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Bandy Lee: Donald Trump's State of Mind: A Clear and Present Danger
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Mysti Babineau: Indigenous-Environmental Coalition Opposes Minnesota Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline
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Catherine Killough: North and South Korea Talks Reduce Rising Tensions Weeks Before Olympic Games
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John Feffer: Trump Tweets Support Iran Protests Amid His Threats of Nuclear Agreement Withdrawal
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Marge Baker: Trump, GOP Transforming Judiciary with Rapid Confirmation of Extreme Right-Wing Judges
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Myesha Braden: Trump Justice Department Revokes 25 Guidance Documents Affecting Civil Rights Enforcement
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Josh Hoxie: Trump Justice Department Revokes 25 Guidance Documents Affecting Civil Rights Enforcement
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Noliwe Rooks: America’s Top 25 Billionaires Have as Much Wealth as 56 Percent of U.S. Population
December
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Jon Rainwater: Trump Reverses Tillerson's Offer to Talk with North Korea Without Preconditions
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Ellen Brown: New Jersey and Several U.S. Cities Moving to Establish Public Banks
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Roni Neff: U.S. Media Ignores Link Between Meat Consumption and Climate Change
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Philip Weiss: With Declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's Capital, Trump Angers World, Isolates U.S.
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Jefferson Morley: Trump Floats Idea to Establish Private Spy Agency
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April Taylor: U.S. Indigenous Communities Building Capacity to Confront Climate Change
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Frank Clemente: GOP Tax Reform a Scam Harming Working Families and the U.S. Economy
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Pedro Cruz: Climate Activists and Labor Must Work Together to Build a Clean Energy Future
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Steven Renderos: National Coalition Gears Up to Oppose Trump FCC Net Neutrality Repeal
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Alex Main: Fraud Could Deny Honduran Voters' Apparent Rejection of Unpopular Incumbent President
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Barbara Maclean: A 'Women's Solidarity Network' Could Provide Support for Victims of Sexual Harassment
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Bert Waters: U.S. Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier Delivers Passionate Thanksgiving Message
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Nancy Altman: Stealth GOP Tax Bill Provision Will Trigger Deep Cuts to Medicare
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Art Tanderup: Nebraska Regulators Approve Keystone XL Pipeline, But Activists Say the Fight is Far From Over
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Craig Aaron: FCC Removes Ownership Rules Allowing Right-Wing Network Sinclair to Reach 72 Percent of U.S. Households
November
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Gretchen Goldman: Trump Ban on EPA-Funded Scientists Serving on Agency Advisory Boards Endangers Public Health
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Pia Gallegos: Independent Report Slams Democrats in Post-2016 Election Autopsy
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Quentin Staggers: Homeless Activists March for Housing and Dignity in New Haven, Connecticut
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Adele M. Stan: Mueller's First Indictments Stirs Fear in White House
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Matthew Gardner: Trickle Down Hoax Central to GOP Tax Reform Plan
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Yanique Joseph: The Answer to Haiti's Deforestation Problem is a National Forestry Corps
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Julianne Tveten: Battle Against 'Fake News' Marginalizes Progressive Media Outlets
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Leroy Westerling: Dramatic Increase in Western U.S. Wildfires Linked to Climate Change
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Bill McKibben: The Desperate Science and Politics of Climate'
October
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Jamal Abdi: Trump's Decertification of Iran Nuclear Deal Isolates and Weakens U.S.
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Eagan Kemp: With Obamacare Subsidy Cut, Trump Will Raise Insurance Premiums, Reduce Coverage
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Laurie Sobel: Trump Guts Obamacare Birth Control Mandate in Another Blow to Reproductive Rights
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David Swanson: Trump Move to Decertify Iran Nuclear Agreement Would be a Clear Danger to U.S. and World
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Ana Portnoy: Many Puerto Ricans Believe 'Second-Class Citizen' Status Contributed to Failed Federal Hurricane Response
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Susan Dantino and Erica Roggeveen Byrne: Protests Greet Newly Dedicated Memorial Honoring Christopher Columbus in Connecticut
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Eric LeCompte: Eric LeCompte: Urgent Call for Debt Relief After Hurricane Shatters Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands
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Tyson Slocum: Tyson Slocum: Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto Rico Could Become a Model for Green-Energy Conversion
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Frederick Clarkson: Frederick Clarkson: Roy Moore's Alabama Senate Primary Victory Boosts GOP Christian Extremists
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Joseph Gerson: Reckless Trump-Kim Insult War Could Trigger Catastrophic Conflict
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Chad Bolt: Protests Help Defeat Latest GOP Obamacare Repeal Bill
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Erick and Jason Ramos: Supporters of Couple Ordered Deported Stage Direct Action Protest, Win Brief Court Stay
September
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Sarah Anderson: Trump-GOP Supported Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Produce Jobs
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Norman Solomon: Democrats' Progressive and Wall-Street Friendly Wings Battle Over Party's Future
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Reed Miller: LGBTQ Prison Support Group Black and Pink Works to Empower their Incarcerated Members
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Carolina Borotolleto: Dreamers Mobilize to Save DACA and Resist Trump
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Angel Candelario: Fight For $15 Labor Day Protests Demand Living Wage and a Union
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Robert Buzzanco: Unchecked Development and Deregulation Exacerbated Hurricane Harvey’s Destruction in Texas
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John H. Cushman Jr.: Texas Flood Linked with Extreme Weather Patterns Long Predicted by Climate Change Research
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Bo Webb: Trump Suspends Funds for Health Impact Study of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
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Melinda St. Louis: NAFTA Renegotiation Must Prioritize Public Interest Over Corporate Power
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Mark Hertsgaard: No Institutional Safeguards Stand Between Donald Trump and Nuclear War
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Chip Gibbons: DOJ Demands Data on Visitors to Anti-Trump Protest Website
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John Jairo Lugo: Community Groups Join Forces to Make New Haven, CT a Leading U.S. Sanctuary City
August
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Rabbi Mordechai Liebling: Witnessing White Supremacy's Violence and Hatred in Charlottesville
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Naomi Ages: Federal Report on Climate Change Impact Leaked Before Trump Can Censor It
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Linda Sarsour: Women’s March Organizer on Effective Resistance in the Age of Trump
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Brenda Shum: Trump Department of Justice Prepares to Sue Universities Over "Discrimination" Against White Applicants
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Jesus Morales-Sanchez: Community Stands in Solidarity with Guatemalan Immigrant Under Deportation Order
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Hilary O. Shelton: NAACP Issues Travel Advisory for Missouri for 'Jim Crow' State Law and Rise in Hate Crimes
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Matthew Gardner: Trump Tax Cut Plan Would Benefit Wealthiest Americans
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Masada Disenhouse: Climate Activists Say California's Cap and Trade Legislation is Gift to Big Oil
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Josh Ruebner: Congressional Bill Would Criminalize Americans' Support for Israel Boycott
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Dedrick Asante-Muhammad: America's Growing Racial Wealth Divide Endangers Nation's Future Economic Health
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Steve Palumbi: Climate Change's Rising Ocean Temperatures Bleaching and Killing Earth's Vital Coral
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George Lakey: Scandinavian Economic Model Provides Blueprint for a More Egalitarian Society
July
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Tomas Lopez: Is Presidential Commission on Election Integrity a GOP Trojan Horse to Expand Voter Suppression?
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Stan Heller: Israel and Palestinian Authority President Impose Extended Power Blackout on Gaza
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Susan Rogers: As GOP Senate Repeal and Replace Bill Dies, Support for Single-Payer, Universal Healthcare System Grows
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Cassady Craighill: Protesters Demand G20 Nations Do More to Address Climate Change
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Toni Harp: U.S. Conference of Mayors Adopts Resolutions Opposing Trump's Military Budget Increase
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Annie Bird: DEA Lied About Deadly Honduran Drug Raid, Accountability Demanded
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Tim Shorrock: As Tensions Rise on Korean Peninsula, Newly-Elected South Korean President Seeks Diplomatic Thaw with the North
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Jeremy Brecher: Climate Activists Must Devise Global Strategy to Challenge Power of Fossil Fuel Industry
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Alka Pradhan: Trump Nominates a Bush Administration Lawyer Who Authorized Torture
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Gerald Friedman: Senate Healthcare Bill Will Cause 22 Million to Lose Health Insurance, Tens of Thousands to Die
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Andrea Flynn: GOP Senate and House 'Repeal and Replace' HealthCare Bills Attack Women's Reproductive Rights
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Mike Oxford: Disability Rights Activists Arrested in Direct Action Protest Opposing GOP's Deep Medicaid Cuts
June
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Morris Pearl: GOP House Guts Dodd-Frank Financial Regulations, Inviting Next Financial Disaster
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Alden Meyer: Climate Alliance Tells World: Trump Doesn’t Speak for U.S. on Climate Change
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Melissa Mays: Michigan State Officials Face Manslaughter Charges in Flint Water Crisis Deaths
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Mark Weisbrot: Labour Party's Jeremy Corbyn Surprises Pundits with UK Election Gains
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John Nichols: U.S. Progressive Movement Looks to Broaden Agenda Beyond Trump Resistance
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Lee Stewart: Coalition Demands Senate Block All New Nominations of Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioners